Paranormal investigation team searches campus for ghosts
By Joseph Roman Flis
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: Culture
On the first night of the investigation, the team set up their equipment in Patten Chapel. McKeel said he felt something push him in the bell tower, and Jeremy Wagner, investigator, said he felt something tug on his shirt. McKeel and Wagner, as well as other members of the team, said they saw about a 3-foot dark object running around the chapel on different occasions.
On the following night, the team moved to Hooper Hall. McKeel said he heard a loud bang while up in the top floor. He said everyone was accounted for and no one was in the area between Hooper and Race where the bang occurred.
Wagner said he heard footsteps and banging inside of Patten while sitting outside, but could not go into the building to investigate the second night because it was locked.
McKeel said after reviewing the data, the main thing they could not explain on the evidence was the loud bang in Hooper on the second night. He said the microphones on two cameras picked up the bang, and it sounded as if it happened right next to a camera set up in the middle of the hallway. He said the other camera down the hall clearly shows no one was near the other camera, and everyone in attendance turned and looked when it occurred.
"There was not sufficient evidence to prove or disprove that either place is haunted," McKeel said.
Marcus Ellsworth, lead investigator of the team and a Murfreesboro, Tenn., junior, said quiet, dark places can sometimes psychologically make people see things that are not there, but cameras provide more reliable evidence."A camera is not going to make up what it sees," Ellsworth said. Both McKeel and Ellsworth said the team would be willing to do a follow up investigation.
On the following night, the team moved to Hooper Hall. McKeel said he heard a loud bang while up in the top floor. He said everyone was accounted for and no one was in the area between Hooper and Race where the bang occurred.
Wagner said he heard footsteps and banging inside of Patten while sitting outside, but could not go into the building to investigate the second night because it was locked.
McKeel said after reviewing the data, the main thing they could not explain on the evidence was the loud bang in Hooper on the second night. He said the microphones on two cameras picked up the bang, and it sounded as if it happened right next to a camera set up in the middle of the hallway. He said the other camera down the hall clearly shows no one was near the other camera, and everyone in attendance turned and looked when it occurred.
"There was not sufficient evidence to prove or disprove that either place is haunted," McKeel said.
Marcus Ellsworth, lead investigator of the team and a Murfreesboro, Tenn., junior, said quiet, dark places can sometimes psychologically make people see things that are not there, but cameras provide more reliable evidence."A camera is not going to make up what it sees," Ellsworth said. Both McKeel and Ellsworth said the team would be willing to do a follow up investigation.
